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Obviously I hate, detest, want to kill, etc, people who play music on the train as much as the next guy but – Why should it be illegal to play a tune on your phone but not to sing out loud, cackle hysterically, drum on the table with your fingers or talk in a loud annoying voice?

Jonn Elledge

I maintain that if Burnham made it legal to confiscate phones from people who watch video or listen to music without headphones, then called a snap election, he could actually increase his majority.

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Part of sharing a public space is respecting other people and expecting other people to respect you, but also part of it is accepting that not everyone will buy into that social bargain, and I’m not sure it would really be a net gain to criminalise non-violent but annoying behaviour

Ответ для Matthew Parkinson-Bennett

Also I am not convinced the motivation behind a lot of rage at non-headphones-users isn’t every bit as misanthropic and anti-social as the not using of headphones. A lot of being part of society is just putting up with shit.

Ответ для Matthew Parkinson-Bennett

I got grief for wearing noise-cancelling headphones and "being antisocial" in my previous workplace by the person who had given me cause to invest in them.